New York, The · Photo: Woodlot · CC BY-SA 3.0Bond has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
The average commute takes 17 minutes each way, where Mississippi has 26 and the U.S. 26. Bond has 87 jobs; 162 of its residents have a job. Home is the office for 0% of workers (Mississippi 6%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Bond
On a workday 160 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 85 people come in from elsewhere.
About 560 people are in Bond on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
19% of working residents work in Wiggins
Where Bond clocks in
19% of workers
9% of workers
8% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Bond works in goods: 63% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bond, 2013 → 2023: 69 → 87. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bond’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 17 minutes to work from Bond
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bond workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 275 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Mississippi: 87% drive alone, <1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Short hops and long hauls from Bond
About 25% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The towns next door employ 19% of Bond
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Wiggins. Darker towns draw more of Bond’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Bond: questions
What is the median household income in Bond?
$49,385 (±$13,846) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bond?
3.8%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bond?
17 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bond work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wiggins (19%, 4 mi), Gulfport (9%, 34 mi), Hattiesburg (8%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bond without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bond, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bond
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.